Timothy Darvill

Professor Tim Darvill OBE is an emminent English archaeologist known for his work in the legal framework of archaeology and as a prehistorian, notably his work with Geoff Wainwright excavating at Stonehenge in the summer of 2008. In 2010 he was awarded the OBE for services to archaeology.

Early years

Tim was born and raised in the Costwolds and has continued to contribute to the local archaeology scene including being chair of the Costwold Archaeology Trust.

Career

Bournemouth University (1991 - Present) In 1991, Tim took up the Chair of Archaeology in the newly-established archaeology group at BU. His work has consisted mainly of prehistory projects such as the Billown excavations and excavations at Stonehenge in 2008. Tim also managed the Monuments at Risk Survey which was commissioned by English Heritage.to study the changing state of England’s archaeological resource.

In 2006, Tim was awarded the National Award for the protection of the archaeological heritage of Russia.

Personal life

Tim is a keen guitarist and plays lead guitar in a band consisting of several other archaeologists.

Bibliography

• ’’Birdlip Bypass Project - First report: Fieldsurvey and archaeological assessment’’ (1984)
• ’’Archaeology in Gloucestershire – From the earliest hunters to the Industrial Age’’ (1984)
• ’’Handbook of Gloucestershire Archaeology ’’ (1985)
• ’’The archaeology of the uplands: a rapid assessment of archaeological knowledge

and practice’’ (1986)

• ’’Upland archaeology: What future for the past? ’’ (1986)
• ’’Houses in Roman Cirencester’’ (1986)
• ’’Archaeological results from accelerator dating’’ (1986)
• ’’Prehistoric Britain’’ (1987)
• ’’Ancient monuments in the countryside. An archaeological management review’’ (1987)
• ’’Ancient monuments in the countryside’’ (1987)
• ’’The Archaeology of Avon: A review from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages’’ (1987)
• ’’Prehistoric Gloucestershire’’ (1987)
• ’’The Rollright Stones: Megaliths, monuments and settlement in the prehistoric landscape’’ (1988)
• ’’Glovebox Guide: Ancient Britain’’ (1988)
• ’’Archaeology in Wales’’ (1990)
• ’’The Breiddin Hillfort: A later prehistoric settlement in the Welsh Marches’’ (1991)
• ’’Hazleton North: The excavation of a Neolithic long cairn of the Cotswold-Severn Group’’ (1991)
• ’’Excavations at Roughground Farm, Lechlade, Gloucestershire: A prehistoric and Roman landscape’’ (1993)
• ’’Rescuing the historic environment: Archaeology, The Green Movement and Conservation *’’Strategies for the British Landscape’’ (1993)
• ’’Brenig Valley Excavations 1972-74’’ (1993)
• ’’Archaeological Resource management in the UK. An introduction’’ (1993)
• ’’Stonehenge Conservation and Management Programme: an archaeologicalbackground’’ (1993)
• ’’Cirencester: Town and Landscape’’ (1994)
• ’’Managing archaeology’’ (1995)
• ’’The remains of distant times’’ (1996)
• ’’Landscapes- Perception, recognition and management: Reconciling the impossible? ’’ (1996)
• ’’Neolithic houses in northwest Europe and beyond’’ (1996)
• ’’Prehistoric Britain from the air. A study of space, time and society’’ (1996)
• ’’Landscape study and management’’ (1996)
• ’’Archaeology in Wales’’ (1996)
• ’’Neolithic houses in northwest Europe and beyond’’ (1996)
• ’’Neolithic landscapes’’ (1997)
• ’’Making English Landscapes’’ (1997)
• ’’Lost Gods of Albion. The Chalk Hill-Figures of Britain’’ (1997)
• ’’Excavations at Kingscote and Wycomb, Gloucestershire’’ (1998)
• ’’The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Butler's Field, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Volume 1: Prehistoric and Roman activity and Anglo-Saxon grave catalogue’’ (1998)
• ’’Wessex before words. Some new research public buildings and shops directions for prehistoric Wessex’’ (1998)
• ’’Llawhaden, Dyfed. Excavations of a group of small defended enclosures, 1980-4’’ (1998)
• ’’Landscapes - Perception, recognition and management: reconciling the impossible? ’’ (1998)
• ’’MARS: The Monuments At Risk Survey of England, 1995. Main Report’’ (1998)
• ’’The archaeology and anthropology of landscapes’’ (1990)
• ’’The Archaeology of Britain: An introduction from the Palaeolithic to the Industrial Revolution’’ (1990)
• ’’The Buildings of England’’ (1990)
• ’’Communicating Archaeology’’ (1990)
• ’’Frocester. A Romano-British settlement, its antecedents and successors: Volume 1. The sites’’ (2000)
• ’’Frocester. A Romano-British settlement, its antecedents and successors: Volume 2. The finds’’ (2000)
• ’’Neolithic Orkney in its European context’’ (2000)
• ’’Three medieval sites in Gloucestershire’’ (2000)
• ’’Prehistory. A Teacher's Guide’’ (2000)
• ’’Neolithic enclosures in Atlantic Northwest Europe’’ (2001)
• ’’The Romano-British small town at Wanborough, Wiltshire’’ (2001)
• ’’Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology’’ (2002)
• ’’Colouring the past. The significance of colour in archaeological research’’ (2002)
• ’’The buildings of England. Gloucestershire 2: the Vale and the Forest of Dean’’ (2002)
• ’’A Romano-British and medieval settlement site at Stoke Road, Bishop’s Cleeve, Gloucestershire’’ (2002)
• ’’Enclosures in Neolithic Europe’’ (2002)
• ’’Archaeology after PPG16: archaeological investigations in England 1990-1999’’ (2002)
• ’’Oxford Archaeological Guides: England’’ (2002)
• ’’Peopling the Mesolithic in a northern environment’’ (2003)
• ’’Neolithic settlement in Ireland and western Britain’’ (2003)
• ’’Megaliths from Antiquity’’ (2003)
• ’’Archaeology in Wales’’ (2003)
• ’’A companion to archaeology’’ (2004)
• ’’Long barrows of the Cotswolds and surrounding areas’’ (2004)
• ’’Exploring the role of analytical scale in archaeological interpretation’’ (2004)
• ’’Monuments and material culture: Papers in honour of an Avebury archaeologist: Isobel Smith’’ (2004)
• ’’Assembly places and practices in Medieval Europe’’ (2004)

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